Next Year Country: The 1% respond!: Keep Up the Good Work! (Just don’t expect us to pay you for it.) Erika Shaker CCPA October 13th, 2011 We know it’s been a while since ...
Very funny satire.
Thursday, October 13, 2011
Tuesday, October 11, 2011
Storm Sunday night
Good thing we took our boat trip on Saturday because it started raining hard Sunday and stormed all night. It rained again yesterday and a bit today. There is still no swimming around our beach except by one or two brave souls as the water is still very rough. Reports are they have not had a rain storm like this for the past 37 years. Several houses lost in mud slides and six people reported killed.
This photo was taken Monday morning. Sunday night at supper the waves were breaking against the 6' seawall and up and over the shade cloth on the sun deck, eventually breaking it down in the night. You can see the size of the rocks the waves were hurling up onto the deck. Lots of fist size and several the size of the big one in this picture.
This picture was also taken Monday morning. Sunday night at supper the waves were coming in level with the concrete deck. The wooden slated "covers" have been torn off by the waves. The holes in the concrete are to absorb some of the force of the waves and keep them from lifting the entire platform or walkway. There are twenty-five such openings on the deck.
I took this photo this afternoon. There was a large concrete step at the bottom of these stairs from the sun deck through the sea wall down to the water's edge. It has been totally ripped off the rebar and demolished
Another picture from today. There are several cubic yards/meters of gravel and rock that were washed up over the 6' sea wall and onto the sundeck by the force of the waves Sunday night.
The water is still very rough close to shore but for a good swimmer it was nice and smooth, as in rolling waves farther out. Getting there and back was the problem. I hope the weather is good tomorrow morning when we fly out of here.
The water is still very rough close to shore but for a good swimmer it was nice and smooth, as in rolling waves farther out. Getting there and back was the problem. I hope the weather is good tomorrow morning when we fly out of here.
Monday, October 10, 2011
Happy Thanksgiving, Canada GiST #16
I am thankful today for:
1. My Tanya, моя Танюшка моя Любимая моя Милая
2. My kids (and spouses, two so far). Those who know them, know how wonderful they are. Those who do not are missing out.
3. My kids' mother, Ella, who is mostly responsible for how wonderful my kids turned out and that they are not to quote MayB "drug addicts working the streets to pay for their habit". Some fathers do not do well raising kids.
4. Tanya's boys, their spouses and of course Masha who round out my family and Tanya's to three and three.
5. Relatives and friends the world over
6. My health (I am in pretty good shape for the shape I am in).
7. An ongoing interest in the world around me and enough books and internet to keep me reading and learning forever and ever.
1. My Tanya, моя Танюшка моя Любимая моя Милая
2. My kids (and spouses, two so far). Those who know them, know how wonderful they are. Those who do not are missing out.
3. My kids' mother, Ella, who is mostly responsible for how wonderful my kids turned out and that they are not to quote MayB "drug addicts working the streets to pay for their habit". Some fathers do not do well raising kids.
4. Tanya's boys, their spouses and of course Masha who round out my family and Tanya's to three and three.
5. Relatives and friends the world over
6. My health (I am in pretty good shape for the shape I am in).
7. An ongoing interest in the world around me and enough books and internet to keep me reading and learning forever and ever.
Sunday, October 9, 2011
Yacht Cruise
Yesterday we went on a yacht cruise down the coast. Very interesting to see the line of resorts wherever there was room between the mountains and the sea. Long trip for Tanya and I as we didn't swim (Tanya is fighting her cold again) or sun but did enjoy the old city of Phaselis (more on that another day).
 |
| The Armada of Cruise Boats sets out at 10:00 am |
 |
| Resort hotels along the shore |
 |
| The coast is either rock or resort |
 |
| Pretty fancy looking place |
 |
| Thump...thump...thump... Ramming Speed!!! Thumpthumpthumpthump |
 |
| Beautiful little cove |
 |
| Quiet harbour |
 |
| Pirates' Cave. Most of the Mediterranean swarmed with pirates at one point in history or another |
Rainy Sunday GiST #15
1. Today was a lazy day as it rained all day. Forecast is for more tomorrow. Looks like winter is upon us a bit early this year.
2. The waves are just pounding the beach tonight, roiling in, all white and foamy and at least 3 or 4 feet high, exploding on and over the rock wall. Water to my ankles on one wave and got yelled at for standing too close to the wall and getting my shoes wet and when will they dry?
3. A little girl, maybe 16 to 18 months old, here with her mother, independent and friendly to everyone. She brings smiles to all faces just running around the dining room.
4. Watching (from a far distance) Tanya bargaining with the shop keepers in the strip malls that line the other side of the road. It is an art form and she is merciless.
5. Two more days and we can go home.
2. The waves are just pounding the beach tonight, roiling in, all white and foamy and at least 3 or 4 feet high, exploding on and over the rock wall. Water to my ankles on one wave and got yelled at for standing too close to the wall and getting my shoes wet and when will they dry?
3. A little girl, maybe 16 to 18 months old, here with her mother, independent and friendly to everyone. She brings smiles to all faces just running around the dining room.
4. Watching (from a far distance) Tanya bargaining with the shop keepers in the strip malls that line the other side of the road. It is an art form and she is merciless.
5. Two more days and we can go home.
Wednesday, October 5, 2011
Have you read Marx?*
Taking a book on a holiday is required. Something to read while sitting in the sun or in the shade as the case may be. I always take a book or two or three. This year I was limited to one so I took one that would last the two weeks. One I have been meaning to read but hadn't yet. A book sale find from several years ago.
The Age of Enlightenment: Basic writings of the eighteenth century philosophers Locke, Voltaire, Berkeley, Hume, Reid, Condillac and others. Selected with Introduction and Commentaries by Sir Isaiah Berlin. First published in 1955.
It is part of a series of 6 books:
The Age of Belief - The Medieval Philosophers
The Age of Adventure - the Renaissance Philosophers
The Age of Reason - 17th century Philosophers
The Age of Enlightenment - 18th century Philosophers
The Age of Ideology - 19th century Philosophers
The Age of Analysis - 20th century Philosophers
If I can wade through this one, I may call it quits, though to be honest one can still learn a great deal from some of these thinkers (as long as there is a commentary in modern English to explain what I just read). John Locke, who is the first philosopher dealt with is some hard slugging to get through and please don't ask me to explain. Apparently his writings at the end of the 17th century set the stage for the others.
This book is great if you like big words and obtuse thought or are having problems falling asleep
I wonder if there is a Philosophy for Dummies book? I don't want to know.
* Yes. I think it is this old Adirondack Chair I am sitting on.
The Age of Enlightenment: Basic writings of the eighteenth century philosophers Locke, Voltaire, Berkeley, Hume, Reid, Condillac and others. Selected with Introduction and Commentaries by Sir Isaiah Berlin. First published in 1955.
It is part of a series of 6 books:
The Age of Belief - The Medieval Philosophers
The Age of Adventure - the Renaissance Philosophers
The Age of Reason - 17th century Philosophers
The Age of Enlightenment - 18th century Philosophers
The Age of Ideology - 19th century Philosophers
The Age of Analysis - 20th century Philosophers
If I can wade through this one, I may call it quits, though to be honest one can still learn a great deal from some of these thinkers (as long as there is a commentary in modern English to explain what I just read). John Locke, who is the first philosopher dealt with is some hard slugging to get through and please don't ask me to explain. Apparently his writings at the end of the 17th century set the stage for the others.
This book is great if you like big words and obtuse thought or are having problems falling asleep
I wonder if there is a Philosophy for Dummies book? I don't want to know.
* Yes. I think it is this old Adirondack Chair I am sitting on.
Burton played Hamlet. Hamlet lost.* GiST #14
And these last few days, Murphy has played Hell and Grace lost. Not that I don't have things to be thankful for; Tanya being at the top of the list. But it is hard to make a list other than of people I want to kill or things I want to smash. Holidaying in Turkey and spending most of my days on computer fighting fires or just keeping them burning in other cases.
1. Did get in the water today for half an hour.
2. Tanya has gone shopping with a friend and I didn't have to go.
3. Internet is a God-send this week.
4. The food here at Sumela Gardens is wonderful.
5. Vsyo budet khorosho - All will be well.
*If someone could find me the correct quotation, I would appreciate it.
1. Did get in the water today for half an hour.
2. Tanya has gone shopping with a friend and I didn't have to go.
3. Internet is a God-send this week.
4. The food here at Sumela Gardens is wonderful.
5. Vsyo budet khorosho - All will be well.
*If someone could find me the correct quotation, I would appreciate it.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)